Everything you need to know about secure units - Russell Webster
WEBOct 8, 2018 · There are 60 secure units for young people in Great Britain: 28 hospitals in England and one in Wales (a mixture of high dependency units (HDUs), psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs), low and medium secure units) 14 SCHs in England, five in Scotland, one in Wales. Three STCs, all in England. Four YOIs for …
Peers who volunteer: a guide on how to support people with lived ...
WEBNov 15, 2021 · Over the past year, myself and a team of people with lived experience, have been working on a best practice guide on how to support people with lived experience who volunteer in a range of roles in the criminal justice, drug and alcohol and homelessness sectors.Typically people volunteer as peer mentors, peer supporters or recovery navigators – helping others overcome the same sort of ...
The experience of being a victim at Magistrates’ court
WEBSep 25, 2019 · The report concludes with six key recommendations intended to improve victims’ experience at magistrates’ courts: In order to raise awareness of the victim journey and ensure that assumptions are not made as to what victims want as they are all different, victims’ voices should be included in induction training and videos should be produced and promoted to magistrates showing victims ...
The Best Justice Podcasts - Russell Webster
WEBMany of us have become addicted to podcasts and the last couple of years has seen a number of new offerings in the criminal justice sector. All of the podcasts listed below have been recommended by readers. Most of them are focused on the UK, but I couldn’t deny you the pleasure of Ear Hustle and Uncuffed if you haven’t come across them ...
Everything you need to know about non-custodial sentences
WEBFeb 3, 2020 · Cost and resources. Non-custodial sentences cost less than custodial sentences. For example, in 2017/18, the average cost of custody was £37,543 per prisoner (not including costs after release, such as probation). The cost for a community order in 2016/17 (the latest available data) was between £2,500–£4,000 per person.
The mental health impact of therapy dogs in prisons
WEBDec 20, 2018 · Findings. The impact of the therapy dogs on prisoner’s wellbeing was tested both quantitatively and qualitatively. Participants completed a Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale SWEMWBS at every session. Follow up data was available for 87 participants (i.e. 87 participants had both an initial rating and a final rating on completion of the intervention).
What went wrong with community sentences? - Russell Webster
WEBMay 4, 2017 · The number of community orders has essentially halved over the past decade, with an increasingly sharp decline from 2011 onwards, whilst custody and fines have remained relatively stable. The rising use of suspended sentence orders has not offset. this trend. The use of community sentences has …
How does our prison system compare? - Russell Webster
WEBApr 7, 2022 · The English & Welsh prison system ranks very high on suicide rate and very low on escape rates. Interestingly, England and Wales has a lower percentage of women prisoners (4% of overall prison population) compared to the European median (4.7%). Scotland and Northern Ireland have a much lower proportion of people sentenced for drug offences (7.1 ...
The voices of neurodiverse people in the criminal justice system
WEBA new (6 December 2023) report by User Voice seeks to give a voice to the many neurodivergent people in the criminal justice system. The report is based on interviews with 104 people in 11 different prisons and a survey with 250 other people in contact with the criminal justice system. All these 354 people had been diagnosed or had diagnosed ...
What incentives work in prison? - Russell Webster
WEBFeb 5, 2019 · Incentives. Last week (30 January 2019) the Prisoner Policy Network published its first report on the subject of What incentives work in prison? based on an extensive consultation exercise with over 1,250 people with experience of prison. It presents the findings from an emerging network of current serving prisoners, ex-prisoners and connected organisations who want to share their expertise ...